16 JANUARY 1892, page 16

Poetry.

FELICITY. A squaLin, hideous town, where streams run black With vomit of a hundred roaring mills,— Hither occasion calls me ; and ev'n here, All in the sable reek that wantonly......

Books.

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF ENGLAND 1N THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.* Mn. SYDNEY deserves some credit for expending a good deal of labour in the compilation of this book, and readers ignorant......